Improved welt-trimmer



Z-7zUe 75307) `MPEVERS, PHOTO-LI'THOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BROOKS, OF NORTH BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH BROOKS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED WELT-TRIMMER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,002, dated May 22, 1866.

To all whom it may conce/rn:

Be it known that I, JOHN BROOKS, of North Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful or Improved Welt-Trimmer for the use of Shoemakers; and I do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying' drawings, of Which- Figure I is a side elevation, Figs. 2 and 3 are edge views, Fig. 4 a front-end -view, Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 6 a tranverse section, of it. Fig. 7 is an inner-side view of the knife-blade. Fig. Sis a transverse section of the stock without the knife-blade.

In the said drawings, A denotes a metallic handle Vor stock provided at one end with a compound guard, C, formed as represented. This handle is grooved lengthwise on its facethat is, it has a groove, a., made in'it to receive a longA steel knife, B, which has its cuttingedge at one end of it, or that which is next to the guard O. The said cutting-edge makes an acute angle with the lower edge of the knife, and is arranged with respect to the guard C in manner as shown in the drawings.

The knife is held in place in the stock by means of clampscrews Z1 b, arranged to screw into the stock and with their heads to lap on the knife-blade, there being recesses o o made in the stock, and arranged with respect to the screw-heads in manner as shown in Figs. l and 6, the same being to enable the screwheads to bear on the knife-blade and not on the stock. i

To form the cutting-edge, the knife-blade on its inner side is beveled, as shown at d in Fig. 5.

There is a throat or opening, e, between the guard C and the next adjacent end of the stock, such throat being formed as represented.

The guard C is made with a lip, f, to project from that face of it which is next to the knife, the same being as shown in the drawings. Furthermore, a screw, g, screwed into and through the stock and against the knife near the welt and sole ofthe shoe, the back of the guard will operate to prevent the knife from cuttil'ig the upper.

A In using the implement a workman holding it by the handle should insert the guard between the welt and the upper ofthe shoe whose welt is to be trimmed or pared, and with the knife-edge against the welt, and should press the implement forward against the welt, so as to trim it down as may be required.

One great peculiarity of the welt-trimmer is its long knife, which, being separate from the handle and guard and the lip, ea-n be sharpened from time to time, until lit may not be long enough to be held in place in the stock by the clamp-screws.

I claim as my invention- Y l. The improved welt-trimmer as made, not only of the guard C and the grooved handle or stock A, but with the long knife B, to [it into the groove of the stock and be confined by means substantially as described.

2. The arrangement of the lip f, with the guard G and the knife B, when arranged with and applied to the stock, substantially as described.

3. The combination and arrangement of the adjusting-screw g with the knife-stock and guard, arranged and applied together, substantially as specified.

JOHN BROOKS.

Witnesses:

B.. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

